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2010 FAC Calendar


March


2nd:     Prêt-à-Parler 5:00 - 7:00 - Our monthly French conversation group.  Event is informal and you may arrive and depart as your schedule permits. $5 for members / $10 for non-members.

6th:     Gallery Opening 2:00 - 4:00 - A reception will be held for the opening of Chapelet de Vie (Rosary of Life), an extraordinary collection of watercolor paintings by Elise Kohl. The public is invited. Admission is free.

16th:    Cinéma Mardi 7:00pm - Réveil (Waking Up French) is a powerful documentary film that explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England.

 

La Semaine de la Francophonie

 

16th:    Statehouse flag-raising ceremony 11:30am - The raising of the flag of the Francophonie at the New Hampshire State House.

 

20th:    Josée Vachon returns to the Franco-American Centre!  A true ambassadrice musicale for Franco-Americans, Josée always creates a laughing, foot-stomping evening as she interprets Franco classics and shares her own additions to that musical legacy.

Tickets $20 members / $30 public

 after March 1: $30 / $40


27th:    Franco-American Portaits is an evening of bilingual theatre by New England troupe Du Monde d'à côté.  They will perform five 20 minute monologues, three in French and two English to mark the close of la Semaine de la Francophonie.  There are no tickets for this event, but there will be a hat passed around for the audience to show their appreciation.

April

6th:     Prêt-à-Parler 5:00 - 7:00 - Our monthly French conversation group.  This month's evening will be themed "Voyages."  Bring photos of a trip that you would like to share a story with everybody. $5 for members / $10 for non-members.

12th:   Spring French classes begin.  Sign-up by visiting or calling.

20th:   Cinéma Mardi 7:00pm - Rififi is a 1950s French classic is about four men who plan a technically perfect crime, but that is complicated when the human element intervenes.

 

May

4th:     Prêt-à-Parler 5:00 - 7:00 - Our monthly French conversation group.  Event is informal and you may arrive and depart as your schedule permits. $5 for members / $10 for non-members.
 

18th:   Cinéma Mardi 7:00pm - Tell no one is about pediatrician Alexandre Beck who misses his beloved wife Margot Beck that was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. .

Cinéma Mardi

March 16th
Showing at 7:00 PM

Feature Presentation

Réveil (Waking Up French)

( shown with English subtitles)
This a powerful documentary film that explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. The film traces the French heritage beginning with immigration from the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Acadia through persecution by Ku Klux Klan and language loss, to cultural renaissance and heritage preservation. Through their determined loyalty to the French Catholic faith, language and cultural values, the French of New England continue to discover new ways of renewal and cultural diversity through heritage language reacquisition.